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      That’s my biggest issue with AI. Now all the APIs want me to pay to use them. Originally the API was an incentive to get engineers to build features for their sites without having to pay them. The engineers get data they need to build their thing and the company providing the API gets free product features and user acquisition. It was mostly a fair trade. Now the companies see a few other companies using that data to train API and make a fortune so their reaction is to charge a fortune for the API. Totally disregarding the previous arrangement. If you are an engineer working on something unrelated to AI you are basically shut down from using any APIs that provide useful data. Everything is locked down now when it once was open. It’s so sad. It makes learning more restrictive

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    To be fair, “they” could probably train AI on Lemmy data, they just won’t ask for permission and won’t be charged for it

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    Nah, first you gotta get comfortable for a couple of years.

    It’s basically pig butchering for social networks.

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        Yeah, I looked into it and the backend is proprietary, so the central owner can restrict features. Like for instance independent instances can only have 10 users.

        It’s “decentralised” except only in extremely limited scope, the code is centrally controlled and the network remains largely, functionally centralised.

        They’re capitalising on the decentralised, federated buzz while doing it so poorly they’re setting up users to say “oh people tried decentralisation, it doesn’t work, look at Bluesky”.

        If it’s not open source, it’s not decentralised.

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    Bluesky is VC backed. They’ll want to make money down the road, and they’ll definitely train AI soon if not already.

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    I’ve yet to hear a good argument for why it matters even if they did. I’ve made thousands of comments on Lemmy that are free for anyone to grab and do anything they want with. If I didn’t want people to have access to them I wouldn’t be posting on the first place.

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      It’s easier to use and has a recommendation algorithm.

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        Which marketing and better how, exactly?

        Can anyone please point me an example of Bluesky marketing that isn’t word of mouth or large-event headlines on the news?

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          no, this place only circle jerks about the fediverse blindly and hates anything with a modicum of attachment to reality.

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      Barrier of entry is marginally lower. With mastodon you’ll have to make a decision on what instance you’re creating your account. With Bluesky there’s just Bluesky.

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        With bluesky ,the sign up has a section where you choose a server. The bluesky server is prefilled. Otherwise you add your own.

        But not having that default option and instead having to have the user go research and figure out which server to use is an immediate turn off.